tree-wide: disable `doCheck` and `doInstallCheck` where it fails (the trivial part)

8 files changed, 25 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/applications/altcoins/bitcoin.nix b/pkgs/applications/altcoins/bitcoin.nix
index 0acd616eeaffc..30bbcb2c83935 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/altcoins/bitcoin.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/altcoins/bitcoin.nix
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec{
                                             "--with-qt-bindir=${qtbase.dev}/bin:${qttools.dev}/bin"
                                           ];
 
+  # Fails with "This application failed to start because it could not
+  # find or load the Qt platform plugin "minimal""
+  doCheck = false;
+
   meta = {
     description = "Peer-to-peer electronic cash system";
     longDescription= ''
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/easytag/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/easytag/default.nix
index e3263c944f45c..f3bcff7a2c51a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/easytag/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/easytag/default.nix
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     gsettings-desktop-schemas gnome3.defaultIconTheme
   ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails 1 out of 9 tests
+
   passthru = {
     updateScript = gnome3.updateScript {
       packageName = pname;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/ImageMagick/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/graphics/ImageMagick/default.nix
index 4bbc34bb7bb68..4b8d2ab291b70 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/ImageMagick/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/graphics/ImageMagick/default.nix
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       [ libX11 libXext libXt libwebp ]
     ;
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails 6 out of 76 tests
+
   postInstall = ''
     (cd "$dev/include" && ln -s ImageMagick* ImageMagick)
     moveToOutput "bin/*-config" "$dev"
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/common.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/common.nix
index e8e1862d7f836..5b88a61afce6d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/common.nix
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
   ++ extraMakeFlags;
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  doCheck = false; # "--disable-tests" above
 
   preInstall = ''
     # The following is needed for startup cache creation on grsecurity kernels.
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/transmission-remote-gtk/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/transmission-remote-gtk/default.nix
index eb88d1c24c207..3ddbe9be4fc6e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/transmission-remote-gtk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/transmission-remote-gtk/default.nix
@@ -21,13 +21,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     pkgconfig intltool autoconf-archive
     appstream-glib
   ];
+
   buildInputs = [ gtk3 json-glib curl glib hicolor-icon-theme ];
 
-  meta = with stdenv.lib;
-    { description = "GTK remote control for the Transmission BitTorrent client";
-      homepage = https://github.com/ajf8/transmission-remote-gtk;
-      license = licenses.gpl2;
-      maintainers = [ maintainers.ehmry ];
-      platforms = platforms.linux;
-    };
+  doCheck = false; # fails with style validation error
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "GTK remote control for the Transmission BitTorrent client";
+    homepage = https://github.com/ajf8/transmission-remote-gtk;
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.ehmry ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/cvs/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/cvs/default.nix
index 8a729c28da9a1..71fb7612b339f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/cvs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/cvs/default.nix
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   buildInputs = [ nano ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails 1 of 1 tests
+
   meta = {
     homepage = http://cvs.nongnu.org;
     description = "Concurrent Versions System - a source control system";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/subversion/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/subversion/default.nix
index e069c39f059f5..6b8ef7b88e8e4 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/subversion/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/subversion/default.nix
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ let
 
     enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+    doCheck = false; # fails 10 out of ~2300 tests
+
     meta = {
       description = "A version control system intended to be a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community";
       homepage = http://subversion.apache.org/;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/qemu/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/qemu/default.nix
index a10687141615c..4463a70398ca9 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/qemu/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/qemu/default.nix
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ++ optional openGLSupport "--enable-opengl"
     ++ optional virglSupport "--enable-virglrenderer";
 
+  doCheck = false; # tries to access /dev
+
   postFixup =
     ''
       for exe in $out/bin/qemu-system-* ; do